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Coding In Paradise

Thoughts, Opinions, and Reviews on Next Generation eBooks

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

I've Joined Inkling -- Digital Textbooks FTW!

This is my first week at Inkling and I'm super excited to be here. Inkling is building interactive and social digital textbooks on the iPad. Digital textbooks are a perfect place to explore moving beyond the traditional book.

Inkling itself is built with a unique combination of HTML5; native bits in Objective C; a textbook markup language named S9ML; and parts in the cloud. I'll be focused on the JavaScript and HTML5 parts as a Web Application Engineer, though I'm interested in getting a chance to do some Objective C at some point. I'm also excited to be working closely with fellow JS folks Andrew Hoyer and Scott Kyle.

Inkling as a company and culture is interesting as well. They are based in San Francisco and are small, so it's easy to get things done quickly. They have a real commitment to usability with a great UX team.